Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java String printf method can be confusing at first, but it greatly simplifies how you ...

I recently added support for string concatenation in #546, however there are some edge cases that still need to be handled. Below is a high-level overview of my ...

It’s often the case that we want to divide a string into smaller parts like words or sentences. Of course, we can split a string into individual symbols using the list constructor: >>> s = "My wombat ...

Q. Traditional PivotTables have always intimidated me. I see there is a new Excel function called PIVOTBY. What is the difference between it and the traditional PivotTable? With the PIVOTBY function, ...

Two physicists have come across infinitely many novel equations for pi while trying to develop a unifying theory of the fundamental forces Saha and Sinha are not mathematicians. They were not even ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

Java’s String class encapsulates an array of bytes. A byte can be converted to a char, in which case, String becomes an array of characters used to compose words, sentences, or any other data you want ...